This game looks better than I initially expected, and probably as good as I hoped since E3.

Plus, a decent soundtrack. Is Ninja Tune like a go-to for video games? Not that I'm complaining, I really like the music on that label.

Shit, just listened to it again, Ninja Tune radio :). British Indie label getting theirs. Man, I hope this game's good, I wanna roll around Hong Kong blasting Ninja Tune radio, I could also do it in the game!

Oh man, this looks fun. Janky as all hell, and I can imagine that some of it will carry over to the final build (I just hope that the crazy pop-in doesn't), but I do love me some environmental fighting.

As far as I know most people in Hong Kong can speak English on top of Cantonese, even though they probably don't speak English as much as in the game. It's still nice to see some characters speaking in Cantonese.

Holy shit, that was so cool when he just grabbed a car and ran some guys over instead of fighting them, I love that you can actually do that and aren't just locked into the current area until you beat everyone up.

Definitely how you play it...that second mission looked a whole lot more fun in the official Sqeenix video. This is going to fill a real GTA/Saint's Row sized void in my life for 2012, reckon it's going to sell pretty darned well.

Thank goodness they decided to change this game to be about a male street thug. Truly the most underrepresented demographic in open world games. Except for, you know, every single one of them ever.

Er, he's an undercover cop. How many other open-world games have an undercover cop as the main character? You certainly aren't one in GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas or IV.

Coincidentally, True Crime:Streets of LA, and True Crime: New York were open-world crime games where you are a cop. Not necessarily undercover all the time, but certainly more on the vigilante side.

However, LobsterMobster is right. The character is an undercover cop, but he is undercover as a street thug, which represents most open world games. It's more convenient to play as a vigilante disobeying the law rather than a cop who has to follow it. Wouldn't be much fun if the player had to follow the law.

I really hope there's no pop-in in the PC version. There shouldn't be.

There might be if you travel at extreme speeds, but it will go away if you run the game from just about any SSD. GTA4 APB(R) and other sandboxy PC games run a lot better and have their geometry pop-in go away from SSD read speeds.